In drawing a distinction between
Avidya and Prakriti, I am merely following the authority of all the
great Adwaitee philosophers of Aryavarta. It will be sufficient for me
to refer to the first chapter of the celebrated Vidantic treatise, the
Panchadasi.
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* Upadhi--vehicle.
Jagrata--waking state, or a condition of external perception.
Swapna--dreamy state, or a condition of clairvoyance in the astral
plane.
Sushupti--a state of extasis; and Avastas--states or conditions of
Pragna.
Vyswanara--the magnetic fire that pervades the manifested solar system--
the root objective aspect of the ONE LIFE.
Hiranyagarbha--the one life as manifested in the plane of astral Light.
Sutratma--the Eternal germ of the manifested universe existing in the
field of Mulaprakriti.
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In truth, Prakriti and Purusha are but the two aspects of the same ONE
REALITY. As our great Sankaracharya truly observes at the close of his
commentary on the 23rd Sutra of the first chapter of the Brahma sutras,
"Parabrahmam is Karta (Purush), as there is no other Adhishtatha,* and
Parabrahmam is Prakriti, there being no other Upadanam.
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